What the SATs Taught Us about Finding the Perfect FitOn the Stitch Fix Algorithms team, we’ve always been in awe of what professional stylists are able to do, especially when it comes to knowing a customer’s size on sight. It’s a magical experience to walk into a suit shop, have the professional shopping assistant look you over and without taking a measurement say, “you’re probably a 38, let’s try this one,” and pull out a perfect-fitting jacket. While this sort of experience has been impossible with traditional eCommerce, at Stitch Fix we’re making it a reality...

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Data Science Articles & Videos

AIVA: AI Generated MusicDid you like that orchestra performing AI-composed music at our NIPS2017 party last night? The AI is called AIVA, and her story is quite unique. AIVA taps into powerful AI technologies to create compositions for everything from advertisements to feature films with amazing originality and emotion...

Multivariate Map Collection
Here is my attempt to collect examples of multivariate maps I’ve found and organize them into a loose categorization. Follow along, or dive into the references, to spur on your own investigations and inspirations!...

Learning from users faster using machine learningConsider this blog post a bit of a wacky experiment — I think the outcome is super interesting, and worth thinking more about..My idea is: create a model that predicts whether someone is going to purchase a widget given a lot of additional data. And instead of using the actual target metric (what fraction of people bought widgets) we use the predicted metric, using our machine learning model...

Deep Learning for NLP, advancements and trends in 2017In this article I will go through some advancements for NLP in 2017 that rely on DL techniques. I do not pretend to be exhaustive: it would simply be impossible given the vast amount of scientific papers, frameworks and tools available. I just want to share with you some of the works that I liked the most this year...

Who to follow in NIPS2017
Interesting visualization of how much Twitter-based influence/mindshare people/organizations have on the field of AI right now...

Visual Domain DecathlonThis taster challenge tests the ability of visual recognition algorithms to cope with (or take advantage of) many different visual domains...

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As a fast-growing fashion e-commerce business and one of the world’s most valuable startups, harnessing the value of the data generated by our operations is critical to Farfetch’s future success and the Data Science teams are at the forefront of this effort.

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TFGAN: A Lightweight Library for Generative Adversarial Networks
In order to make GANs easier to experiment with, we’ve open sourced TFGAN, a lightweight library designed to make it easy to train and evaluate GANs. It provides the infrastructure to easily train a GAN, provides well-tested loss and evaluation metrics, and gives easy-to-use examples that highlight the expressiveness and flexibility of TFGAN...

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